For this reason we have decided to include an Australian gap year student (the same age as the target audience) who will be the narrative viewpoint and deliver the story.
We will use her voiceover to explain the events.
Our revised treatment is below:
Waitress: gap year student who tell the story
Sous chef: ex-convict, trainee chef
Main chef: Heston Blumenthal inspired chef, who is a perfectionist.
Waitresses- French waitress, find it hard to understand the English accent and is clumsy.
Extras: Hollie and Annie who are new to the area and are soap celebrities
Location: Local restaurant
Ideas: Chef chopping cumber, very articulate and fast, characters reference him to Heston Blumenthal. Clumsy waiter trips up with food gets food in celebrities’ hair. Waitress misunderstands the flirty customers food order, she become annoyed. Opening titles are edited onto culinary objects such as, a knife, a splat of sauce with the word edited in the pan, names on menus and the main title on a cumber which then gets cut up letter by letter.
TREATMENT: Our story is told from the point of view from an Australian 18 year old girl who is here on a gap year. She gets things done and helps out being a waitress and organises bookings in the restaurant. She is very down to earth and capable because her parents run a restaurant in Sydney and she’s had a lot of experience in the restaurant business already. She is often surprised and exasperated by the incompetence of the staff, particularly the perfectionist chef who would really be happier in a science lab, the cockney sous chef who fancies himself as Jamie Oliver and spends all his time imagining what he’ll look like on screen and the empty headed fashionist French waitress who is only interested in chatty up men and her own looks. The narrative view point of the film opening is delivered through her voice over.
The film opening starts with an establishing shot outside a restaurant before moving into the interior. Australian girl Dani walks into the shot, checks the name and disappears into the restaurant.
Interior: Mid shot of Dani walking over to The Chef who is seated at a work table planning his menu for the day. The table is covered with all his results of his latest experiments and enthusiasms: green porridge, snails, test tubes, beetroot mergine. He gestures with a big beam on his face at his menus and tries to convince Dani (who looks sceptical).
Quick shot to show the kitchen where we see the sue chef cooking who appears rather untidy with his tattoos on show. The main chef, bosses the sue chef around and he becomes annoyed and mumbles about killing him. Like a mad Heston Blumenthal, pans are on fire, plates are perfected, combining weird ingredients together however he doesn’t seem to worry about the chaos he is causing. Meanwhile the sue chef comments scarcely ‘are you trying to be some Heston Blumenthal or summin?’. However the sue chef is like Jamie Oliver, with his ‘bish, bash bosh’ gestures.
Nervous to serve Hollie and Annie who are soap celebrities, ‘Heston’ starts for the day ahead. The French waitress appears to be doing her makeup and pulling up her skirt and slightly appears to be clumsy by dropping his apron when talking to the Aussie and trips over her feet when she walks away. The Aussie does a voice over saying (what a clumsy tart). The flirty French waitress is asked to bring ‘Heston’ some floss however lost in translation she brings him some gloss. The celebrities Hollie and Annie arrive and everyone starts panicking. The Heston type chef appears nervous and sweaty to which Annie and Hollie look in disgust. They sit down and order their starter which is cream and potato soup and find a hair in it which they complain about, the austrailain appears to have no effect that they are clebrties and accidently spills some water over the table (narrates over saying who are they pretentious idiots anyway). The flirty waitress gets annoyed when the sous chef gives the celebrities the attention and not her, so she pretends to choke. The aussie however helps her to unchoke but the flirty waitress then shrugs her off when the ex-convict doesn’t save her. The second course is misunderstood by the French waitress as Annie ordered stake however they get hake (the fish). Becoming annoyed they then order the bill but Hollie just wants a quick apple tart, this is then brought out by the clumsy waiter who then trips and splashes it all over the celebrities! The chef comes out in tears and the boss, just looks confused while the sue chef is laughing and the waiters are embarrassed.
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